A Green Halloween

While planning your Halloween celebration with friends and relatives this year, consider your environmental impact, too. By choosing your costume, treats and decorations carefully, you can reduce environmental impacts from manufacturing, transportation, use and disposal. Establishing new traditions and bringing back some very simple practices from the past can save money as well as help the environment.

Costumes
•Make costumes from objects found around the house or visit a thrift store to find fun outfits and accessories.

Actio Corporation, headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is publishing a dynamic blog about greening manufacturing via chemical management software in the supply chain. Very interesting blog for those interested in chemicals in the products we buy, use, and consume. New material twice / week!

View blog here - see what you think. Read how Green Mountain Coffee stays green and within environmental, health and safety regulations: http://www.actio.net/default/index.cfm/news-events/blog/

Or subscribe to blog via RSS here: http://supply-chain-data-mgmt.blogspot.com/

There was a notable blog recently in the Harvard Business Review on:

Software is to manufacturing what electricity was to manufacturing http://bit.ly/1B7uOT

...meaning that technology -- or the "digitization" of manufacturing -- will change how manufacturing processes occur so much that processes will be unrecognizable. It made me think.

I work for a NH-based company. We make software. The software manages chemical substance data -- for environmental compliance in supply chains.

Here's a note from Nik Coates at the Program for Alternative Transportation and Health about Green Commute Week. If you haven't yet taken part in the action this week, here are several ways for you to get involved, and get fit:

Green Commute Week in Concord is in full swing and there’s been building momentum for the big event with Governor and Dr. Lynch on Friday.

Here’s a brief recap for Concord’s events for the rest of the week:

• Thursday, 11-1 p.m., at Eagle Square

The Green Alliance is a growing union of green businesses on the NH Seacoast, offering strength in numbers, raising the profile of local sustainable businesses through collaboration, consumer education, and shared business strategies. Started last July by local activist and former journalist Sarah Brown, the GA has since exploded into a union of 53 businesses -- and more are joining every week.

It’s really easy to beat yourself up when you’re trying to do the right thing. Instead of feeling good about yourself for helping in small ways, you look around you and feel overwhelmed with how much there is to do – or not do. And panic.

Don’t go down that road: Nothing good comes of it, and you might even end up giving up, which would be way too bad.